Pakistan's former ruler sentenced to death
A Pakistani court has sentenced former military ruler Pervez Musharraf to death on charges of high treason and subverting the constitution, government officials say.
The court's full ruling was not available but it said in a summary it had analysed complaints, records, arguments and facts in the case and had reached a majority verdict, with two of the three judges giving the decision against Musharraf.The charges stem from Musharraf's imposition of a state of emergency in 2007, when he was facing growing opposition to his rule.
He resigned later in 2008, after a political party that backed him fared poorly in a general election, and he has spent much of the time since then abroad. Last month, Musharraf issued a video recording from a hospital bed in Dubai in which he said he was not being given a fair hearing in the case that was filed by the government in 2013.
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